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a rapidly moving we don't have the opportunity to hit the pause button and give a particular frame a closer look maybe if we did notice more flaws in our actions and have a chance to rethink and maybe even reduce or here's where photography fails they get our guest bryan alexander has brought some real here to stay but troubling skills from his favorite actor. brian alexander's real love with the arctic started during his first visit to the region in nine hundred seventy one with difficulties and extremely low temperatures only to experience the hospitality and generosity of the locals they revealed to him the riches of their land and brian says if it hadn't been for them it would be impossible to take such astounding shots of the arctic but they're mostly on taj regent is in danger the civilized world trampling on the primal landscape and the centuries old way of life

of the peoples of the progress is rushing headlong into it and there seems to be north force that can slow down no force but for talking. to the show thank you thank thank you very much for being with us well first of all we just saw this wonderful picture of you somewhere in there. antartica you look just as this guy i mean i mean just as indigenous affairs that these people were all in for well first of all i want to ask you what's your attitude to. to this green movement people that say no to furries never wear fur coats and so on and so forth. well i think it's you don't look as a supporter at least a picture no no absolutely not i mean i think that if you read me terms you wear leather shoes or you got a lot. of the whole question of becomes sort of really.

i think that compared with the industrial forms of food production. the idea of hunting is a much more civilized and. a much better way of overtraining food you know the animals running wild for. all but the last second or so of its life and then it up it's much better than being you know one of these factory farming food producing a lot of our food comes from and as a matter of fact one of the one of the arguments of those people who say no to for is that is that the high tech jackets. are the ones that are produced in china probably they're better they're warmer would you say this is true or this traditional clothing used whether people is better i think there's a. question for the people for warms. reindeer skin clothing

which has hollow handles is infinitely warmer than anything that i would use or anything else because i've seen no question i mean i've sat on a sled being pulled behind a snowmobile for ten eleven hours of the time minus forty and i thought very very comfortably warm. face well even in a very sort of covered with. this. you know there are ways of sort of tell me your head out of the window and saw this and it's like it broke you as far as i understood you first you first went to greenland and back in nineteen seventy were getting very hot and since then you're always you traveled to siberia greenland alaska canada arctic on terra all over how did you get involved with that region how why when i got involved really when i was studying photography in london then i did a project on the on the technical problems the photography or subzero temperatures and that took me to the polar research institute in cambridge where i sort of

happened upon. books written by rasmussen and peter freud and about the innuit of northwest greenland i got interested in it seemed to me to make a lot more it was a lot more interesting than what they did than a lot of explorers who were just after cheating some sort of geographical some point you're actually started by trying to make the camera work at subzero temperatures you are not just a camera working at subzero temperatures but it was also you know that but the actual processing film minus forty and being able to drive it you don't tell me you're processing folder no i'm not doing it for the project i was working on was basically but you know looking into that because actually the american military had done a lot of research on this scene in antarctica and the but there's no more felt in these days is there well there is film these days and in fact film is rather better than digital for extreme cold but yes you're right you know we're entering

a digital we've entered into a digital world what why would you say that for extreme cold film is better than digital there's a lot i think you know the digits i mean film is something there's something that can freeze great or whatever yard approach the problem with digital is that it's largely electronic and electronic and coal don't go well together and so on. you find i mean the camera that i use now which is a digital canon camera it works down quite comfortably to about minus thirty five but it stops at minus forty and some of the photos that you take it will go on the wall you know like you press a button and nothing happened stop and whereas you know in with with film i've used them down to minus fifty eight celsius and you have good. ok now you. of course have. a lot of challenges their whole world working at the in this region one of them is that you just mentioned challenges for the camera but what kind of

challenge for yourself keeps you going there again and again because it should be a challenge it's not the comfort that although it's just it's the images i mean you know this last march i was. with a group who took three rainy herders in chicago for perhaps the most traditional group of. indigenous people that i've ever worked with and you know in them we were living in i suppose you'd relatively uncomfortable conditions and each morning you know when i woke up i was thinking to myself you know. doing this sixty one isn't quite as easy as it was it doing it at twenty two but then i look at the pictures and that's what keeps me going that you really should have millions of those pictures were a little more well because the art it's changing in a new pew i'd never come across these people before i'd never photographed a year rangar before which i've just done so over these years i know i read that

you you have been through pretty dangerous situation fairly fell into ice water right at minus forty and so on and so forth here do you have something. in mind in your memory which you could consider as the most dangerous. because in your life or falling through here for a through feeling to see an ice in the water minus forty is danger but it's only sort of a problem for a few minutes because i you either get out or you're dead. but i suppose the most significant thing i can remember was being adrift with a group of hunters going wallace hunting off the north coast of greenland and then during the night the ice broke up and we were dreadful purposely just i just know it cracked and off we went but we woke up we were floating between reno and canada and we were about sort of i don't know seventy kilometers off of off the coast and there for i think nearly five days before we were rescued by helicopter so it

during that time you're kind of going through highs and lows and wondering whether it's going to be your last photo shoot well you have been here have been focusing on people here and the indigenous people and you have been witnessing in registering changes in their life in their attitude even the appearance what's that made true and what would you say today well when i enter the twenty first century here. i mean the main trend is one of us has native peoples concern is one of modernization there's so much more you know access they have access to t.v.'s now a lot of. people even remote hunting cans have you know d.v.d. players and televisions and stuff so there's been a general modernization i suppose and with that comes a sort of tear ration of traditional culture. there but in many ways if there's nothing wrong with you know the modernizing and and

cultures have to change you can't cultures in a museum but. when people are you know. sort of feel like you want to say educated from their own culture if you give them a a sort of danish educational russian education then it should let you know education should lead somewhere there should be jobs or something for them to do and that's what the danger as i see it at the moment in a lot of northern communities there just aren't the jobs so you know the people are left sort of between two worlds there they're neither in their traditional culture nor they generally kind of accepted into european or whatever culture they were what would you what would you say verbs are if those people of the indigenous people of the north get educated get more modernizing their they may still be there for raj d.v.d.-a listen to listen to that i felt that is and so i think they they said absolute is ok i absolutely sure we all lose something ship schill. that humanity will lose something important if they start drafting and i said stop it

stop hunting idea but go to go to cities and start going to we're going in areas that are going to what no that i mean no culture has to say i have to change i think it's a shame of cultures. die mean you know people are up in arms when a particular species of animal is often becomes extinct right or. you know what i feel pretty much the same i think it's sad i mean it's that the sort of mix and wealth of cultures in our world that enrich has it and so every time you lose one i think it's it's that when a person like yourself comes to live with the church you see here look so good. swear of life and what people do and say well i think they are happier than us who live in the cities i've always thought this was this was a park or a scene or no and i think that's probably less people talk about a traditional way of life i think there's less. less stress less

i think generally people randi heard is that i've. been with certain i would say a sort of on the whole fairly content with their lot and they're in a. pretty good shape when it comes to survival because i can give you an example that in one in the early ninety's when i first traveled to the amount this is a chaotic times in the north of russia i mean you couldn't get food you couldn't get fuel i mean it wasn't transport we were just no end of problems i then went out with a group from nana trying to herd us. and spend altogether three months with them on the tundra it was a very different story everything was very organized so we had a range of meat we have issues what food is we need we had very good shelter we had rain discontents as much and firewood as we needed to keep warm we had transport in many ways we were much better off than people who were actually in the village and all the towns of the art and probably a lot of places in russia says brian alexander an award winning photographer

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what about the spotlight are going on and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is brian alexander an award winning photographer. a you spend most of your time. taking pictures in the free north arctic and the antarctic regions and these the regions of the planet are considered to be like the true ground the trees are what scale what well what's changing in the climate on the whole planet so so is there really any visible change over there certainly visible change i mean i've seen it in areas of north

greenland which i've been sort of visiting sort of on a fairly regular basis for the past thirty nine years so i've seen that glaciers have receded and also what tends to be happening is that the. ice around the coasts of the arctic and the rivers and lakes are freezing later reach of what i'm a later in the autumn and that same ice is then breaking up earlier in the spring and that poses problems for people who are going to need to travel on them on the ice and rivers. cherry alexander are one of the b.b.c. world and i photographer of the year back in ninety five yes that's right here with a picture of a blue eyes very again this and what i read about it is that is that one of the reasons is that. those blue eyes are very very rare those days but no they're not this is climate change also the reason i don't think blue icebergs were ever

particularly rare you can see is that the picture not you know that's hard thanks no that's a that happens to be a picture of a piece of iceberg that's taken at midday in a poll and i she was taken at me. day in january during the polar night and it's a piece of ice with the moon reflecting off. so so so so with the back on one of those with your eyes going what amount of light you know the blue icebergs you know they were never that rare i mean that was just a particularly stunningly beautiful one and of course it had penguins on it it just it looked absolutely delightful and it was a great shot but i think that. what's happening now is that. they're more common i'm not sure it is i just think that there's more people going to the are you can going to the antarctic and seeing those a rush for economic economic exploration of the region of the arctic especially right now do you think it's an opportunity or do you think it's more a danger. for this region which you really love but i think you know for the rain

for the people who are that it's not so much an opportunity i think it's probably a danger but you know i presume you're referring to all the oil and gas that's in the arctic and it's something that we need russia needs it for its own economy and you know the rest of the world needs it as consumers so it's something that i think that is sort of inevitable. that these resources are are developed it's not a saying of whether it's sort of good or bad it's just only something that's inevitably going to happen well let's see what people in russia now thing about investment into the arctic spotlight. on that has the answers. hi there well the arctic has been a topic of hot discussion lately due to its undiscovered oil and gas reserves which estimated quarter of the world's resources will warming is causing things you know the ice caps which in turn is triggering an increasing interest to the area let's

see if people in this country think that it's time to start investing into the region. from which we were i think it is very important for our country to invest money into the because of its resources which were discovered a long time ago at that time there were no technologies to get to those resources but today such technologies exist and many countries will try to get to the regions and try to get a bigger piece of why. i think it's a very good idea for our country at this moment because it can serve as a good foundation for future generations. i think it's necessary for any state which is aspiring to be global because the arctic is off future g.t.t. undiscovered resources you're the best i think it is very important to invest money into the arctic because we need to protect our sea shelf. yes i think we need to invest money into the arctic but it shouldn't be watching the rest months because russia has enough issues within the country which are looking financial support

from our government. i think we should because if we won't do it somebody else will definitely get to those undiscovered reserves. i think development of technology for more. yes i think it's very important because of the reserves and the northern route to asia how i got here he's got a question yes. the economic development of the arctic destroy the everyday lives of the indigenous peoples and. well the answer is yes yes absolutely will it i think. it's almost saw it i think it will in the areas you know obviously where the main mining or oil and gas extraction. is taking place yes it was all if we compare the life of the indigenous people of

the north of resample the indians and caliban where or america you know states i would say that the life of the indians is destroyed i mean what's left of them are like museums of what used to be but the life over there is still worth do you agree but i'm not i'm sure there's a lot of crean indians in in northern canada who wouldn't agree that their life has been destroyed they may have you know a lot of modern boats and. and also snowmobiles and and all the other modern paraphernalia but they're still hunting and trapping and this it's you know the price of food in the arctic can be very high so this use of traditional foods is kind of important. do you think that. the sort of the big industrial complex is the big industries. that russia is planning and already starting to construct in its arctic regions are

big. and their impact on the environment will be will be very serious well there's a potential for of course environmental disasters we've seen what happened in the gulf of mexico but from a point of view of. destroying cultures yeah because reindeer herders in the jamar which is one of the areas that has is very very rich and gas. you know they face a very uncertain future because the question of ownership of the land they need land to be able to migrate with their reindeer and they follow a traditional routes you know there's a view of. of nomadic people of just sort of wandering aimlessly across the tundra it's not that at all they have specific specific routes sort of lay in their answers to be taken for centuries now the question is if a gas company then comes and wants to drill there what's going to happen. if there

are no longer going to be allowed there and that certainly happened in areas of the amar where whole large areas of the tundra just green you know closed off and. all people who did from it apart from you know official gas company workers so there's a you know there's a very serious sort of threat there from this oil and gas and you know the question is whether how you compensate for that and whether in fact people will be well promise to put it is a matter of thank you you don't see me you don't seem to be pretty much worried about the sickly ecological situation but the russian prime minister he ordered to start cleaning up cleaning the mess in the in the air rushing arctic and he said well do you think that this is because he knows better than you out there i mean that the ecological situation or is just like part one i think we're talking about the mess that's already there i think is what he was referring to. and that goes back you know to the fifty's when you know people were sort of its first exploring

in the area and they just saw it as a sort of land and they just discarded all the rubbish and all equipment that they didn't didn't use and it's was a very similar case in the north of canada. as well but there they had taken very active steps and spent a lot of money and you know people are more cautious yes i think environmental attitudes have changed dramatically since that it is people are much more aware of . sort of preserving a sort of art because a sort of pristine environment if they just give up that we've been talking about it or if they called it which is close to russia what about the antarctic. is it is the situation different and i'm telling you that yes absolutely i mean antarctica is protected by treaty in the ocean at the moment and the ocean because well yes but the there is you know at the moment the antarctic treaty prevents any industrialisation being carried out on that how long that would last if.

vast deposits of oil or gas or other sort of valuable minerals were were discovered there i don't know i suspect not too long but at the moment it's impossible so what really needs the attention of the environmentalists is today is the arctic yes. yes because i think the end of all it needs it more than the i mean there are other areas of the world and ultimately people environmentalist not just the arctic but you know the antarctic can say is it's already rate well regulated and controlled the arctic is much less thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that right guest in this studio today was in the world winning photographer bryan alexander and that's it for from all of us here if you are yourself spotlight where someone and what you think i should until they start to drop me a line at al green of out in the lead that i will be back with more of the lead

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